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My Development Setup

My Development Setup

When I tell people that I'm a web developer and that I use Vim [http://www.vim.org/] as my primary IDE [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment], it often drives them to ask more questions about my development environment. I've answered this question enough times that I

Do You Need A Framework?

Do You Need A Framework?

I recently wrote a post [http://codetunnel.com/its-okay-to-use-frameworks/] where I discussed the reasons I believe it is okay to use frameworks in professional development environment. Most people seemed to agree with the sentiments I expressed there but a large chunk of them did not. Overall I still maintain that

It's Okay to Use Frameworks

It's Okay to Use Frameworks

I recently sat in on a conversation that rubbed me the wrong way. Ultimately the group ended up going with the decision I agreed with but the conversation we had to get there should have been a whole lot shorter. The group was debating the finer points of using frameworks

"vpub" bash function that automatically increments your project's version number, pushes to git, and publishes to npm.

"vpub" bash function that automatically increments your project's version number, pushes to git, and publishes to npm.

Just paste this function into your .bash_profile. function vpub() { npm version $1; git push origin master; npm publish; } Then you'll be able to do vpub patch/minor/major and it will: Automatically increment the version number in package.json. Tag your latest commit with the new version number. Push

Synchronize WebStorm Settings Across Multiple Machines Using Google Drive

When I started Node [http://nodejs.org/] development I went on a hunt for the perfect IDE. After some deliberation I settled on WebStorm [http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/] by JetBrains [http://www.jetbrains.com/]. I really wanted to get a cloud-based IDE working such as Cloud9 [http://c9.io]